Psycholinguistics

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6 domain-specific abstractions whose origin domain is Psycholinguistics.

• Embodied bilingual language — The hypothesis that second-language comprehension recruits perceptual, motor and emotional simulations grounded in bodily experience.
• Linguistic determinism — The strong and largely rejected claim that a language's structure fixes or severely limits its speakers' possible thought, knowledge, categorization, memory, or perception rather than merely influencing habitual cognition.
• Motor theory of speech perception — The hypothesis that listeners perceive speech primarily by recovering intended articulatory gestures rather than classifying the acoustic signal alone.
• Qwerty effect — A proposed and contested psycholinguistic association in which words containing more right-hand QWERTY-keyboard letters receive slightly more positive valence judgments.
• Statistical learning in language acquisition — The extraction of distributional regularities from speech or language input, such as transitional probabilities, to discover word boundaries, categories and structural patterns.
• Transposed letter effect — Observe that a letter string formed by swapping positions within a base word often activates that word more strongly than a matched replacement-letter control, revealing flexible but constrained orthographic position coding.